People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1896 — Pertinent Political Paragraphs. [ARTICLE]

Pertinent Political Paragraphs.

From the Irwinton (Georgia) People’s Guide. A year ago Senator Steward said there would be several western senators to follow him into the populist camp if the republicans did not come out flat-footed for free silver. Senator Teller will probably be the next to follow him, as he has declared that under no conditions will he vote for a goldbug for president. * * * Do you know, kind reader, that the net profits of the national banks of this country for the last twenty years have been nearly $1,500,000,000? Such is the fact. Give them complete control of our monetary system and they would net this much in five years. And the farmer and laborer would be the ones out of whom the profits are squeezed. * * * A reduction of $30,000, has been ordered in the wages of those employed in the freight department of the Southern railway, although the earnings of the road show an increase. But then they can buy more with their wages now than they could a few years ago, you know. * * * The Santa Fe railway system, which was recently sold under the hammer for $60,000,000, consisted of 10,000 miles of track and an immense number of cars and locomotives. The real value of the outfit is said to be $350,000,000. When the government comes to buy this same outfit the price will be $500,000,000. * * * In the United States there are 180,000 miles of railway. If the entire mileage should be sold under the hammer at the price paid for the Santa Fe, the cost would be but little over sl,000,000,000. How about that $10,000,000,000 the old party humbugs say the railroads would cost the government ?